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TT: Uncommonly tuneful

October 4, 2006 by Terry Teachout

How many of these songs do you know well enough to whistle?


– “All My Ex’s Live in Texas”

– “Back in Black”

– “Blowin’ in the Wind”

– “China Girl”

– “Hot Fun in the Summertime”

– “Hotel California”

– “Instant Karma”

– “Jailhouse Rock”

– “Jolene”

– “Light My Fire”

– “Maria”

– “Money”

– “My Favorite Things”

– “Over the Rainbow”

– “Roxanne”

– “Satisfaction”

– “Sheep”

– “Superstition”

– “That’ll Be the Day”

– “We Will Rock You”


No, this isn’t a test. Here’s why I’m asking: Daniel J. Levitin uses these songs as illustrations in the opening chapters of his new book This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (“For example, the main accompaniment to

TT: Almanac

October 4, 2006 by Terry Teachout

“Shakespeare’s plays are works of philosophy–philosophy not argued but shown.”


Roger Scruton, Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life

Terry Teachout

Terry Teachout, who writes this blog, is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. In addition to his Wall Street Journal drama column and his monthly essays … [Read More...]

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About “About Last Night”

This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout. Terry is a critic, biographer, playwright, director, librettist, recovering musician, and inveterate blogger. In addition to theater, he writes here and elsewhere about all of the other arts--books, … [Read More...]

About My Plays and Opera Libretti

Billy and Me, my second play, received its world premiere on December 8, 2017, at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach, Fla. Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, ran earlier this season at New Orleans’ Le Petit Theatre. It previously closed off Broadway at the Westside Theatre on June 29, … [Read More...]

About My Podcast

Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I are the panelists on “Three on the Aisle,” a bimonthly podcast from New York about theater in America. … [Read More...]

About My Books

My latest book is Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, published in 2013 by Gotham Books in the U.S. and the Robson Press in England and now available in paperback. I have also written biographies of Louis Armstrong, George Balanchine, and H.L. Mencken, as well as a volume of my collected essays called A … [Read More...]

The Long Goodbye

To read all three installments of "The Long Goodbye," a multi-part posting about the experience of watching a parent die, go here. … [Read More...]

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